Engraved card printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of Prince Leopold and Britannia in front of Princess Charlotte's tomb adorned with her portrait and topped with an urn. Six numbered stanzas of a hymn and two staves of music are engraved at the bottom
Description:
Title from item., All engraved., First lines of "The funeral hymn, being part of the burial service paraphrased": 1. How short, how narrow is the span, how few the years allow'd to man! ..., "The music selected and alter'd by E.W. Smith, of St. Georges Chapel, Windsor"., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Crabb, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817 and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Britannia (Symbolic character), Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Grief, and Musical notation
Caption title., Signed: Enemy to the shop tax., In support of Lord John Townshend against Lord Samuel Hood in the Westminster election of 1788., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain. Parliament, Townshend, John, 1757-1833., and Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816.
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1788, Taxation, Public opinion, and Retail trade
A slip song with the refrain "Derry down, down, &c" addressed to constituents of Middlesex to vote for independent radical candidates George Byng and Sir Francis Burdett in the upcoming local election of 1802
Alternative Title:
Independent electors of Middlesex
Description:
Caption title., In verse., First lines: Rouse, rouse, freedom's sons! all your efforts unite, Make choise of tried men, Independedt, upright; ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Abraham, Clement's Lane
Subject (Name):
Byng, George, 1764-1847., Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844., and Great Britain. Parliament
Speculum perspicuum uranicum, Almanack for the year of our redemption, 1687, Coelson, 1687. The second part of this almanack, and Second part of this almanack
Description:
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 4 of 12 titles bound together., Title page and calendar in red and black., The words "the death of our Saviour, ... was burned, 21 years." are bracketed together on title page., Signatures: [A]⁸ B-C⁸., and "Coelson, 1687. The second part of this almanack" has separate dated title page with "printed by Ralph Holt" in imprint; register is continuous.
Publisher:
Printed by A. Grover [and Ralph Holt] for the Company of Stationers
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Published / Created:
[after 1827]
Call Number:
File 652 F852 827
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Speech of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York in the House of Lords, April 25th, 1825
Description:
Caption title., Handbill with ornamental border, printed in gold., Possibly issued by the Protestant Union as they had a copy printed in gold on vellum for presentation to the Duke., The Duke of York declared his opposition to any Catholic concession with a speech in the House of Lords was greeted by anti-Emancipationists as the charter of their cause. Following the Duke’s intervention, emancipation for Catholics had to wait for the Catholic Relief Act passed in 1829., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title in letterpress below image., Letterpress broadside song illustrated with etching (design 15.5 x 25 cm) at top of sheet. Title on plate: "Totus mundus agit histrionem." Signed in lower right corner: Tho. Booth sculp., Dated by Stephens 1725 from the British Museum impression that lacks the song and imprint., Sheet trimmed close to design and letterpress resulting in minor loss of title., "To the tune of Gossip Joan.", Sixteen stanzas of song in three columns below title: Ye peers, ye cits and beaux who haunt pit, box and gall'ry ..., Describes a fight between two actresses, Kitty Clive and Peg Woffington, which took place in 1746 when Henry IV was performed at Drury Lane, as related by Thomas Davies in his Dramatic miscellanies, 1784, v. 1, p. 231-3. The subjects in the print were identified by Horace Walpole (1717-1797) in his copy of Davies' Miscellanies., Temporary local subject terms: Theaters: Green Room, Drury Lane -- Actors: Owen MacSwinney and James Raftor., and Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd persuant to act of Parliament, Jan. 29, 1746, by G. Foster on Ludgate-Hill, and sold at the print and pamphlet shop in London and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Woffington, Margaret, -1760, and Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777
Includes Gardelle's account of his murder of Anne King and a description of his attempts at suicide after he was apprehended., Two woodcuts show Gardelle in his prison cell with visitors and the courtroom as the jury announces its verdict., and Not in ESTC.
Caption title., In verse., A political satire of Admiral Augustus Keppel (1725-1786), navy officer and politician, and his unfortunate campaign for the seat of Surrey in 1780. The broadside is augmented by the engraved illustration featuring Keppel, his ship HMS Formidable ablaze, and fourteen other figures, all in service of "Merit protected. Persecution repelled. Undue Influence defeated." The lengthy satirical poem was prompted by the 1780 election for the commons in Surrey. It references his previous courts-martial for his conduct during the Battle of Ushant, and comments on the state of the nation, war, and the economy., Engraving signed in lower left: Argus del. et sculp., Engraving with imprint below image: Publish'd as the Act directs, Novr. 25, 1780., Stockdale advertised the sheet in the General Advertiser, Nov. 27, 1780., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., A slip song., First line of the first of seven stanzas: How blithe was I each morn, to see., Date based on other items published by Garratt's., In this edition the woodcut shows a pastoral scene with a couple standing on the left beneath a tree and two dogs on the right., Not in ESTC., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at Garratt's Printing-Office in Lynn, Norfolk
